Cheating

Sports medicine Slang for the use of ancillary muscles to achieve a particular movement—e.g., bench presses—because the muscle group normally used for the movement has been overloadedVox populi The use of subterfuge, deceit or fraud in one’s interpersonal or business interactions

1994) generally find that students and faculty agree about the most severe or obvious forms of cheating (copying from other student's exams, using cheat sheets, and turning in research that is not your own), but disagree concerning which other behaviors are, indeed, cheating (plagiarism and bibliographical misrepresentation, working with other students on homework when it has been expressly forbidden, using an old test to study without the teacher's knowledge, and getting questions or answers about an exam from someone who has already taken it).

1) We consider asymmetry because being ahead or behind may influence an individual's incentive to cheat, just as asymmetry influences individuals' choices to engage in risk-seeking behavior in tournaments.

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